Re: [eclipse-dev] [ide-dev] Why we dropped Eclipse in favour of IntelliJ

[Walter Harley <eclipse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I work for a company that has hundreds of developers using Eclipse.  We would probably be able to find money to fund Eclipse developers (and we do indeed also spend a lot on IntelliJ seats).  What we cannot easily do, though, is make our own developers into Eclipse committers.  The company is very worried about IP leakage (both for legal and security reasons), and the Eclipse committer agreement doesn't fit well with our other legal obligations.

Being able to pay money to the foundation in return for support and improvements would create an IP firewall without which we probably cannot make a realistic contribution.

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Pascal Rapicault <pascal.rapicault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Earlier we were talking about how to fund developers at the foundation? I think that if the foundation was willing to sell Eclipse support, then this would most likely pay for a couple developers and support ppl, etc.